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Tag Archives: Steven Plaut
summer in the city
In the heat of the night….. Its a sort of nihilism; this pushing to the social extremes to find a sort of paradox in the divine secular spiritual center that is non-existent. A reflection of visual indifference to the protest … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Burning Jews Chiapas Mexico, daphni leef, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, Hadash Jewish-Arab socialist party, Israel LGBT community, Israel Meretz Party, J14 protest movement, Likud Party Israel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Moshe Silman, Moshe Sliman, Rahum Herzl, Steven Plaut
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those heretics: searching for the kingdom of saints
Mysticism, whether heretical or not, is often the refuge of defeated radicalism.Messianist German Anabaptists would become pacifist, mystical Mennonites, and the messianic English “Fifth Monarchy Men” would become pacifist, mystical Quakers. The wild millenarians, The Seers; there is no shortage … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albigensian Church, Arnold of Brescia, brenda zlamany, English Fifth Monarchy Men, Joachim of Floris, John Milton, John of Leiden, John Wycliffe, Lollard Revolt, Marcel Duchamp, Mergery Kempe, Peter Waldo, Richard Rolle, Roger Waters Separation Wall, Ruysbroeck, Sami Michael, Steven Plaut, the Umiliati, The Waldenses, Thomas a Kempis
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remolding the scattered
There is no question there has been a fragmentation, a near collapse of the relationship between the ruling class of Israel, the secular establishment and all its state sanctioned apparatus of control , the bureaucracy, and the disparate elements that … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Benzion Netanyahu, Dani Rosenberg, Dani Rosenberg movies, David S. Wyman, ehud olmert, gush katif expulsion, Hannah Arendt Israel, jabotinsky, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Moshe Feiglin, Moshe Katsav, Norman Finkelstein, paul schutzer, paul schutzer photography, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Steven Plaut, Susan Sontag, Yair Lapid, Zeev Jabotinsky
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radical chic: return of the ekosians
Truth to power. A kind of truth to power. Neo-Nazi? Patriot? Freedom fighter? Misguided genius? Eccentric gadfly and publicity hound? Clearly inscrutable, but all part of the mystery of radical Jewish culture, the people, the remnant of the remnant as … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alan Dershowitz, Art Spiegelman, art spiegelman maus, Arthur Butz, children of holocaust survivors, david ridgen, Elie Wiesel, Eva Fogelman, fara kaplan, George Grosz, Gideon Levy, Israel Shamir, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Beckmann, Natasha Mozgovaya, nicolas rossier, Norman Finkelstein, Steven Plaut, Thomas Klocek, Tom Segev
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redemption through damascus gate
Society of the Spectacle. A game. In part, an attempt to gain social acceptance in an environment hostile towards Jews or can it be attributable to an infantile effort to correct a haunting victim status through self-blame, the kinds of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Allan Dershowitz, benny morris, De Paul University Norman Finkelstein, George Grosz, Guy Debord, Israel Shamir, Jeff Halper ICAHD, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Beckmann, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Otto Dix, Ruthie Blum, Salvoj Zizek, Steven Plaut, Yair Lapid
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rage against the trader
The origin may be an ancient one, that idea, peculiar to many, which asserted that making business is dirty business. Money is ugly. It appears to be a Medieval concept and a Greek and Roman notion that looked negatively upon … Continue reading